FX 8320 Full Load, weird temps?

[Seabass1337]

Okay so after like 4 months of using the stock cooler that the FX 8320 came with I decided to change it to Hyper EVO 212 for obvious noise and temp reasons. Now here is the problem, before the change I was hitting 67-70 C in SpeedFan and HWiNFO, CoreTemp during full load at stock speeds. After changing it to the new cooler it idles at 30 C and it stays at the same temp when im running Prime95. Is this even possible?

The CPU is ran at stock speed of 3.5 GHz.

 

[LukaBoki]

What MoBo are you using?

 

[Seabass1337]

GA-78LMT-USB3 (rev. 5.0)

 

[LukaBoki]

Do you have the latest BIOS update?

 

[Seabass1337]

Yes I do. Here is the image with all the software and Prime95. http://imgur.com/SQHajhQ
I also noticed that the frequency tends to jump around is that due to poor MoBo?

 

[LukaBoki]

The MoBo isn't poor quality or anything.
I think that you shouldn't worry about the temps or anything.No matter what,the 212 EVO will keep the 8320 cool even at 100% CPU usage.
And in the end,having 40C on your CPU at stress tests is always a great thing.

 

[Seabass1337]

Also one more thing i noticed is that when I stopped Prime95 it seems to run at 3700 and jump to 4000 for seconds. Is it due to that its not using 100% on all of them and it gives room for the cores to speed up?

Here is CoreTemp when Prime is OFF http://i.imgur.com/ocJRxx1.png

 

[LukaBoki]

That isn't big a deal,no need to worry about that.

 

[Seabass1337]

Also based on all the info i've given do you think I could push it to 4 GHz?

 

[Colin Lee]

I think you're looking at average temps, not max. It clearly shows minimum (idling) temps as 26° & maximum (with all 8 cores @ 100%) temps as 41/42° in both Core Temp and HWiNFO64. Those temps by the way are pretty damn good.

 

[Colin Lee]

Also based on all the info i've given do you think I could push it to 4 GHz?

At those temps it's entirely plausible. Just try small steps and preferably without touching the voltage levels (they'll make your temps soar).

 

[Seabass1337]

True it does show 40 as being max, but that 40 must have been for a brief time as I was watching the temps and running Prime for 10 minutes and didn't notice that 40.